Client is responsible for the development of large scale Internet web sites. We are responsible for evaluation, design, selection and implementation of pragmatic, cost effective technologies, to support our various clients' business models.

Skill Requirements

• Proven team building and leadership experience in a web development environment
• Staff training , team development skills and experience
• Strong written/verbal communication skills
• Experienced in estimating effort and elapsed time required to complete project deliverables.
• Skilled in both Object Oriented and Non-Object Oriented Design and programming techniques.
• Several years of skill in PHP and at least one other object oriented language such as perl or Java.
• Experience designing with large scale distributed databases.
• Strong business and technical analytical ability so as to create robust technical design documentation from business requirements documentation.
• Proven ability to define success criteria to meet and measure quality expectations.

Responsibilities:

• Provide feedback on business requirements documentation to ensure resolution of any apparent ambiguity or contradictions.
• Functional Breakdown, Design, Programming, testing and maintaining web site applications to support the business requirements.
• Perform impact analysis for design modification and obtain signoff from the Architecture Team.
• Participation in the selection and implementation of third party software to support design where it is practicable.
• Appropriate documentation for each development step – including functional, design, and testing specifications.
• Developing and documenting workload estimates (ie: Creation of workload breakdown plan to define and track software development efforts)
• Delivering functionality within these estimated effort and time frames
• Selection, implementation and/or modification of web development practices and methodologies to support continuous improvement efforts.
• Provide assistance to junior programmers to generate Low Level Design documentation for new or modified functionality.
• Conduct Design reviews with Technical Architect, Project Manager and Manager of Software Development for final design approvals.
• Conduct documentation and code reviews for their team members to ensure standards compliance.
• Define test methodology and use cases to analyze and verify software programs, forms, reports and interfaces.
• Communicate issues and status information to Project Management Office concerning system development activities.
• Liaison with Project Mangement Office to resolve scheduling conflict and project dependencies.
• Update system data and prepare conversion requirement as necessary for new implementation and production rollout.
• Participate in project status review meetings with other Team Leads and the Development Manager

Technical Expectations

• 5–6+ years of PHP 4/5 design/coding/testing/implementing using Open Source approach
• Supervise and lead a team of 6 – 10 programmers
• 4+ years of Object Orientation design and development experience for large scale distributed web applications
• Linux, Mac O/SX, MySQL, PHP, Apache/Light HTTP technologies experience
• Computer Science trained graduate or equivalent work experience

To apply for this position please send your resume to paul@softwareint.com

The Sr. PHP Developer will be responsible for the continued development of our proprietary content management system. This is a results oriented role in a growing international company reporting into the Platform Architect. This individual will be heavily involved in our architecture strategy as well as new development efforts. All work will be executed professionally and with quality results.

Required Skills:

• 4-6 years of solid experience in PHP/XML/Javascript/MySQL/Apache
• Good working knowledge and previous development using the Zend framework or similar MVC and OOP experience
• Must have experience in developing in a Load Balanced Distributed Web environment
• Experience with Unix/Linux file systems and structures
• Experience with dynamic page generation and management
• Experience with implementing various 3rd party API's and Web Services
• Experience with Social Networking development and concepts
• Previous experience with Lucene
• Previous experience with Content Managment Systems (i.e. Drupal, Mambo, Joomla, etc)

Ideal Candidate will Posses:

• Software engineering best practices, including code reviews, proper source code control and use of defect tracking
• Excellent personal time management, experience in estimating and sizing of development tasks, and a track record for meeting deadlines
• Ability to conduct research into system issues and products as required
• Strong interpersonal/communication skills
• Must be Customer Service oriented
• Ability to work in a collaborative team-oriented environment
• Very motivated and self-directed, with good attention to detail

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Java/C++
• Experience with Web Analytics
• Experience with Akamai
• Experience with OpenX

Benefits:

• 401K,
• Health/Dental/Life Insurance,
• Paid Vacation,
• Casual Dress,
• Paid Parking,
• Startup-Environment

Contact Andre Durnell (at Spartan Resources) at andre [at] spartanresources [dot] net woith your resume or for more information on the position.

The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

Are you passionate about building global software products? Do you want to improve the web search experience for millions of users around the world everyday? Do you enjoy solving challenging and complex problems? Are you extremely analytical and very detail-oriented?

Yahoo! Web Search is passionate about building the best search engine on the planet! Search, one of the most vital and dynamic technologies behind the Internet, is full of new challenges and opportunities for innovation. Building this system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, data analysis, multi-terabyte storage systems, high-performance, high availability computing, and efficient massive graph traversal algorithms.

The international web search team is responsible for advancing our core search technology for international markets. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team! If you have a desire to build the fastest, biggest, and most innovative search engine on the planet, come talk to us.

Responsibilities include: * Gain a deep understanding of the design of the search engine and content system. * Analyze problems and identify opportunities aggressively for engineering improvement and enhanced user experience for international markets. * Design and enhance features in core components of the search engine or content system according to requirements from international markets. * Drive projects from design to deployment.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• 5+ years industry experience with C/C++ development on Unix platform, Linux experience a plus.
• Experience building large-scale, complex, reliable systems or applications.
• Strong systems programming background. Multi-threading, distributed computing, performance analysis and optimization experience highly desirable.
• Participated in the full life cycle of a large project: design, implementation, testing, shipping, and sustaining.
• Good verbal and written communication. Strong teamwork skills.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• BS CS or equivalent required, MS CS preferred
• Text analysis, information retrieval, or related experience.
• Experience in software internationalization.
• Fluency in one or more foreign languages.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit careers.yahoo.com

The Internet is a big, busy place, and we at Yahoo! are proud to stand out in the crowd. As the world's number one Internet brand, servicing over a half billion people, we're determined to maintain our commitment to delivering news, entertainment, information and fun... each and every day.

In order to maintain our position as one of the world's most trafficked Internet destinations, we're always on the lookout for people with big ideas and big talent to help us provide our visitors with the innovative products and services they've come to expect from Yahoo!. We're looking for people like you.

Are you passionate about building global software products? Do you want to improve the web search experience for millions of users around the world everyday? Do you enjoy solving challenging and complex problems? Are you extremely analytical and very detail-oriented?

Yahoo! Web Search is passionate about building the best search engine on the planet! Search, one of the most vital and dynamic technologies behind the Internet, is full of new challenges and opportunities for innovation. Building this system provides many technical challenges in the areas of distributed computing, data analysis, multi-terabyte storage systems, high-performance, high availability computing, and efficient massive graph traversal algorithms.

The international web search team is responsible for advancing our core search technology for international markets. We're looking for world-class, fun-loving engineers to join our team! If you have a desire to build the fastest, biggest, and most innovative search engine on the planet, come talk to us.

Responsibilities include: * Gain a deep understanding of the design of the search engine and content system. * Analyze problems and identify opportunities aggressively for engineering improvement and enhanced user experience for international markets. * Design and enhance features in core components of the search engine or content system according to requirements from international markets. * Drive projects from design to deployment.

Minimum Job Qualifications:

• 5+ years industry experience with C/C++ development on Unix platform, Linux experience a plus.
• Experience building large-scale, complex, reliable systems or applications.
• Strong systems programming background. Multi-threading, distributed computing, performance analysis and optimization experience highly desirable.
• Participated in the full life cycle of a large project: design, implementation, testing, shipping, and sustaining.
• Good verbal and written communication. Strong teamwork skills.

Preferred Job Qualifications:

• BS CS or equivalent required, MS CS preferred
• Text analysis, information retrieval, or related experience.
• Experience in software internationalization.
• Fluency in one or more foreign languages.

Yahoo! Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. For more information or to search all of our openings, please visit careers.yahoo.com